Anonymous ID: 748da5 June 14, 2021, 8:37 p.m. No.13906298   šŸ—„ļø.is šŸ”—kun

Madeleine McCann suspect breaks silence to slam investigation

 

The prime suspect inĀ Madeleine McCannā€™s disappearanceĀ has broken his silence, calling the investigation an ā€œunbelievable scandalā€ and ridiculing prosecutors in Germany for continuing to zero in on him despite failing to bring charges.

German national Christian BrĆ¼ckner, 44, accused prosecutors of persecuting him in a handwritten statement released Monday from prison, where heā€™s serving time for the 2005 rape of a 72-year-old woman in the same area of Portugal where the British toddler went missing, the Telegraph reported.

ā€œCharging someone with a crime is one thing. It is something completely different, namely an unbelievable scandal, when a public prosecutor starts a public prejudicial campaign before proceedings are even opened,ā€ he said.

ā€œYou have proved worldwide, through arbitrary convictions in the past and through scandalous prejudicial campaigns in the present, that you are unsuitable for the office of an ā€˜advocate for the honest and German people who trust in justice,ā€™ and that you bring shame to the German legal system.ā€

BrĆ¼ckner ā€” who lived abroad in southern Portugal for more than a decade ā€” was named as the prime suspect last year in the disappearance of Madeleine, a 3-year-old girl who vanished from her bedroom during a family vacation there in 2007.

German prosecutors have said they haveĀ ā€œconcrete evidenceā€ she is dead and are treating the case as a murder, though no remains have ever been found.

ā€œIf you knew the evidence we had, you would come to the same conclusion as I do,ā€ Braunschweig state prosecutor Hans Christian Wolte told the BBC.

ā€œI canā€™t promise, I canā€™t guarantee that we have enough to bring a charge, but Iā€™m very confident because what we have so far doesnā€™t allow any other conclusion at all.ā€

Along with his handwritten statement Monday, BrĆ¼ckner included a drawing of the prosecutors in a restaurant ordering a ā€œfillet of forensicā€ ā€” a reference to prosecutorsā€™ acknowledgment that they donā€™t have ā€œforensicĀ evidenceā€ tying him to the case, the Telegraph reported.

Madeleineā€™s parents, Kate and Gerry, have remained hopeful over the years that they would find their daughter alive.

ā€œAll we have ever wanted is to find her, uncover the truth and bring those responsible to justice,ā€ her parents said in a statement last year.

ā€œWe will never give up hope of finding Madeleine alive but whatever the outcome may be, we need to know as we need to find peace.ā€

 

https://nypost.com/2021/06/14/madeleine-mccann-suspect-christian-bruckner-breaks-silence/